In the song "Strange Fruit"by Billie Holliday, what was the "strange fruit" of the song?Racism and cruel punishment was extremely harsh for African...

This song is a song about lynching in the South.  The
"strange fruit" referred to in the title are the bodies of the people who have been
lynched.  They are called this because they are hanging in the trees like fruit should
but they are clearly not normal fruit.  Here is a lyric that clearly shows that the
"fruit" are black bodies:

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Black body swinging in the Southern
breeze

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar
trees

This line shows that
the writer of the song was imagining the bodies of lynched black people as fruit.  The
song contrasted the genteel image of the south (with its magnolia blossoms) with the
harsh reality of what lynching did to people (the graphic description of a dead
person).

The song is really a very brutal and graphic
denunciation of
lynching.